New Delhi, Feb. 27 -- The booking of tickets for The Kerala Story 2-Goes Beyond was continuing despite a stay on the release of the movie, the state government told the Kerala High Court on Friday.

The matter of the release of the controversial movie is before a division bench of the Kerala High Court.

According to a PTI report, petitioners Sreedev Namboodiri and Freddy Francis, on whose petition the court had stayed the release of the movie for 15 days, submitted that the tickets for Kerala Story 2 were selling, despite the stay.

They told the court that the movie producer, Vipul Amrutlal Shah, had moved an appeal before a division bench against the stay on Thursday night, but no interim order was issued paving way for release of the ...